Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1887-11-18
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1871

""fS OIL aii oIdhe put on lt--GeOrg(
Francis Train.
--Ex-Gov. S. Z. Hauser, ot
Montana, recently told Chicago
reporter that the territory had lost
s20,000,000 in cattle during the
year.
The receipt of cattle, and
hogs, at Chicago, have greatly in.
creased this week, but values have
not weakened much, and there is
good demand.
The Supreme Court OF
Indiana has decided that students
can not vote In a town where they
are temporarily attending school,
unless they have decided to make
such town their future home, and
are assessed there for the purposes
OF taxation.
-Lingg, the Anarchist, who
committed suicide at Chicago last
Thursday, was an ardent advocate
of dynamite, and claimed that
there was much virture in its use.
His last act has done much toward
convincing the world that he told
the truth.
Before the interstate COM
merce law went into effect the
Standard Oil Company enjoyed
rate to Pacific coast points that
made competition absolutely i'm
possible. The operation of the
law has put stop to this unfair
discrimination.
"A call has been issued for a
convention to be held at Aberdeen.
OAK, on December 18th, for the
purpose of petitioning Congress to
authorize the holding of conven-
ton to frame q constitution for a
state embracing the whole terri
tory.
There is much talk about
the best method to dispose of the
surplus in the United States
Treasury. A good way to dispose
OF part CT it would be to give it to
old soldiers who were paid off
with money worth about forty
cents ON the dollar.
In Jersey City sympathiz-
ers of Anarchists displayed red
flags, and their places of business
were Immediately demolished by
worklngmen. When the anarchists
think that the laboring men of
this country are in sympathy with
them or their methods, they are
greatly mistaken.
"A vigorous effort is being
made in st Louis to abolish |
German from the public schools
A school election will be held next |
tuesday, and those opposed to
German have nominated a strong
ticket composed of men of both
political parties. tits hoped that
this party may be successful as
nothing but the English language
should be tolerated in the public
schools of the country.
Edward Atkinson has pro-
posed novel plan for the settle
meht OF the fisheries dispute be-
tween the United States and
England. His scheme is that the
United States should purchase
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and
Prince Edwards Island, on the
basis of the proportion of the
Canadian debt which is $50 head
for the population, or s50,0OO,0OO.
in all. This would give the United
additional territory equal in pro-
ductive power to New York and
Pennsylvania.
The remains of the five an
were inferred in Wald-t
helm cemetery,near Chicago, last {
Sunday, with great pomp and {
ceremony. Fulsome eulogies i,
were spoken over the cofins of the
lead, brass bands played melan- {
'holy music, and singing societies :
sang doleful dirges. The speeches
perhaps were not as CORY az the
cad anarchists would have wished, t
'ut they were law-defying spec |
mems of oratory just the same. E
The red flag was not permitted Z
q he carried In 4hn ,,,oaA.a:ln